When I was a writer for Wired News, it was always exasperating to see the previous day's stats and find that the story with the word "iPod" in the title got 5 t

When I was a writer for Wired News, it was always exasperating to see the previous day's stats and find that the story with the word "iPod" in the title got 5 times the pageviews of the "hard stories" on topics like privacy breaches or environmental waste. But them's the breaks. It's not a vote on the True Merit of a submission -- it's just a nod to something you happen to have found interesting that day.